ضِفَّتَيَّmy two banks

Example sentences

• فَقُلْ لَهُ إِشْرَبْ مَا بَيْنَ ضِفَّتَيَّ النَّهْرِ أَوِ الْمَدِّ

  Then say to him, "Drink whatever is between my two banks, the river or the tide."

  ضِفَّتَيَّ — my two banks. The dual, Arabic's 'exactly two' form, here 'two banks', with the first-person possessive '-ya' (my) attached: 'my two banks'. The count of two lives in the word's shape, not a separate number, and the owner hangs on its end. So one word says 'my two banks'.

  From: Luqman's Wisdom and Trial →